This isn’t exactly a “rare” picture of the late Christopher Wallace. The shot has actually made its rounds on the Internet, just not in the manner some of the more popular pics of the King Of New York has. B.I.G. breaking down weed before rolling it in a blunt is about as quintessential Frank White as it comes in terms of visuals.

For as charming as he was when speaking to the fairer sex, he was, for lack of a better term, as hood and as ignorant as he wanted to be. That, combined with his rare ability to piece words together not many before or after have been able to master, is the reason he remains as revered now as he was during his heyday of the mid 1990’s. Wiz wasn’t the first rapper to smoke while he was driving.